Barbara Ann Repan

Sharing Hope that Anchors the Soul

The Art of Amen

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The Art of Amen, A creative prayer experience

When I read this quote by Corrie ten Boom, it stopped me. I stopped to think about it for my prayer life. Prayer has been my "spare tire" but my desire is for prayer to be my "steering wheel" and this book, The Art of Amen, has helped steer me in the right direction. "Don't judge a book by its cover", they say. I broke that rule with this one. Several months ago I began reading books on prayer. While at a Christian bookstore, I spied The Art of Amen on the shelf and because the cover is so Continue Reading

Making The Best Yes Decisions

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{This post originally posted on August 19, 2014, and was updated September 9, 2020} Today I received the new book,  The Best Yes by Lysa TerKeurst and I’m looking forward to reading it!     And I need to. I’ve made my share of wrong ‘yes’ decisions. But today I’m making the decision to focus on learning how to make better yes decisions, with Lysa's new book. I was thinking about some of my best yeses and many of them were originally a no. Marrying John and accepting Jesus as my Savior, both in Continue Reading

Simple Truth from Watching the Birds

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The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. J.M. BARRIE, The Little White Bird For the last two month’s I’ve watched a pair of house wrens build their nest, protect their nest, feed their babies, and kick the twins from the nest. Well, I didn’t actually see them get kicked out. :-) Birds are fascinating to watch. They started building their nest on the cement slab at the top corner on our front porch but it kept falling Continue Reading